From Loudersound.
Dinosaur Jr. have just released new single Garden, the second track taken from Sweep It Into Space, their soon-to-be-released album coming April 23 via Jagjaguwar.
The new single is accompanied by a deceptively simple video that features the band hanging out together in snowy weather, while animations by Chloe Hemingway and illustrations courtesy of John Moloney swirl around them. On the face of it, it seems like a pretty ordinary scene – trippy visuals aside – and is even filmed through an iPhone camera. But Garden is designed to be the antidote to troubling times, and is in fact a gentle reminder to take a step back from the chaos of life’s complexities.
Bassist /vocalist Lou Barlow explains: “Everyone seemed to want a disruption in the order of American life, it seemed necessary. Then it happened. [This song] began as a bitter lamentation but as I was finishing the lyrics, singing over the instrumental version of the song while driving to J’s through the miles of farmland that separate his studio in Amherst and my home in Greenfield (Massachusetts), I saw a sign on a shed: Back to the Garden. I was looking for a resolution, where do we go when faced with such dramatic confusion? Back to basics, back home, back to the garden.”
Explaining the low-key video, he continues: “There wasn’t a video planned for the song but since my wife Adelle and I had started making holiday ‘specials’ for my YouTube channel this past December, we thought we could knock one out for Garden.
“Adelle thought we should incorporate the whimsical paintings of Dinosaur Jr’s tour manager John Moloney. He routinely dashes off caricatures of J, Murph and I when we travel. I told John about our ideas and he thought it would be easy to video the band playing the song.”
“So, John and Adelle quickly captured the band playing the song on their iPhones on a cold February afternoon and I edited it all together in iMovie. Then we had Chloe, the real vid expert at Jagjaguwar, put the paintings by John and Adelle into the mix, and that’s it!”
Dinosaur Jr. will also be playing a livestream performance on May 1. Tickets are available now.
1. I Ain’t
2. I Met the Stones
3. To Be Waiting
4. I Ran Away
5. Garden
6. Hide Another Round
7. And Me
8. I Expect It Always
9. Take It Back
10. N Say
11. Walking To You
12. You Wonder
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DINOSAUR JR Green Mind (Original 1991 German pressed UK/EU 9-track vinyl LP - Their fourth studio album was also their first following bassist Lou Barlow's departure and the first released by a major label; including the monster hit single TheWagon. The glossy picture sleeve displays minimal shelfwear while the vinyl looks barely played. A 90's classic!)
- Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 11-Apr-2024 16:50)on April 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm
DINOSAUR JR Start Choppin (1992 UK 7" vinyl single, also featuring Turnip Farm, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows a little light wear with small residual sticker mark to front, whilst the vinyl looks barely played NEG61)
- Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 04-Apr-2024 09:38)on April 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm
DINOSAUR JR Freak Scene (2005 issue UK limited edition 7" vinyl single featuring a reissue of the alternative rock classic from 1988, also includes 'Bulbs Of Passion'. Both the picture sleeve and vinyl remain in excellent condition 7SN033) **Limited to 2500 Copies Only**
- Dinosaur Jr - Fossils - Shrink - US - vinyl LP - £50.00, $62.50, €58.50 (New Item) (arrived 29-Mar-2024 08:37)on April 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm
DINOSAUR JR Fossils (1991 US SST Records 8-track compilation vinyl LP including Little Fury Things, Just Like Heaven and Freak Scene, picture sleeve. The vinyl and sleeve,which retains it's original opened shrinkwrap, are in near mint condition SST275)
- Dinosaur Jr - Deep Wound - UK - vinyl LP - £19.99, $24.99, €23.39 (New Item) (arrived 21-Mar-2024 09:29)on April 26, 2024 at 11:55 pm
DINOSAUR JR Deep Wound (2006 UK 24-track LP. Compilation of J Mascis' & Lou Barlow's short lived American hardcore punk band [credited as an early influence on American gindcore] who would both go on to form Dinosaur Jr. Originally released in1997, contains tracks off the highly collectable first EP, then the tracks featured on the 'Bands That Could Be God' comp and then finally the original demo from 1982. Housed in a single pocket picture sleeve with a clear hypestickered PVC outersleeve. The sleeve shows only light shelfwear and the vinyl reveal minimal signs of play DAMGOOD247LP)
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